Words, Language & Grammar
epub |eng | 1914-01-23 | Author:Victor Appleton [Appleton, Victor]

Chapter 14 MAKING IMPROVEMENTS Tom Swift was so overjoyed and excited that for a few moments he capered about, inside the booth, and outside, knocking against his chum Ned, clapping ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1886-01-23 | Author:Jerome Klapka Jerome [Jerome, Jerome Klapka]

On Being Shy All great literary men are shy. I am myself, though I am told it is hardly noticeable. I am glad it is not. It used to be ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1915-01-23 | Author:Henry Rider Haggard [Haggard, Henry Rider]

Chapter 12 Brother John's story Although I went to bed late I was up before sunrise. Chiefly because I wished to have some private conversation with Brother John, whom I ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Percy Bysshe Shelley

NOTE: _29 pleasures]pleasure 1824. LADY: I offer only _30 That which I seek, some human sympathy In this mysterious island. INDIAN: Oh! my friend, My sister, my beloved!--What do I ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1859-01-23 | Author:Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn]

Chapter 3 'The sin of witchcraft.' We read about it, we look on it from the outside; but we can hardly realize the terror it induced. Every impulsive or unaccustomed ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar January 23,2019 )
epub | | 2010-05-21 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

CHAPTER VI JOHN HUXFORD'S HIATUS. Strange it is and wonderful to mark how upon this planet of ours the smallest and most insignificant of events set a train of consequences ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar January 23,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Tobias Smollett

CHAPTER FORTY HE CONTEMPLATES MAJESTY AND ITS SATELLITES IN ECLIPSE. This expedition being happily finished, General Macleaver put the whole army, navy, transports, and scene of action into a canvas ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1892-01-23 | Author:Henry Rider Haggard [Haggard, Henry Rider]

My father, forgive me the tears that fall from these blind eyes of mine; I am very aged, I am but as a little child, and as a little child ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1860-01-23 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

CHAPTER XXVII MYTHS After the sculptor’s arrival, however, the young Count sometimes came down from his forlorn elevation, and rambled with him among the neighboring woods and hills. He led ...
( Category: Classics January 23,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1951-01-23 | Author:Leigh Brackett [Brackett, Leigh]

A ladder banged against the stones a few feet away. Men swarmed up the rungs, fierce-eyed clansmen with laughter in their mouths. Stark was first at the head. They had ...
( Category: Science Fiction January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1912-01-23 | Author:Victor Appleton [Appleton, Victor]

Chapter 13 KOKU SAVES THE LIGHT "Don't do that!" cried Mr. Whitford. "What?" asked Tom, in some surprise. "Don't destroy that letter. It may give us a clew. Let me ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1915-01-23 | Author:Sinclair Lewis [Lewis, Sinclair]

CHAPTER XXIII (THE DIARY OF MR. ERICSON, CONTINUED.—EDITOR) AUGUST 20, (1911, as before): Big Chicago meet over. They sure did show us a good time. Never saw better meet. Won ...
( Category: Genre Fiction January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1954-01-23 | Author:Damon Francis Knight [Knight, Damon Francis]

Len's contract was not renewed. He got a job waiting on tables in a resort hotel, an occupation which pays more money than teaching future citizens the rudiments of three ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar January 23,2019 )
epub | | | Author:Samuel Butler (1612-1680)

* * * Ecce_Iterum Crispinus.--- WELL! SIDROPHEL, though 'tis in vain To tamper with your crazy brain, Without trepanning of your skull As often as the moon's at full 'Tis ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar January 23,2019 )